Monday's Notebook

April 15, 1986

Johnny Podres, whose pitching heroics in the 1955 World Series highlighted a 15-year major-league career, was expected to be hospitalized for another 10 days after a slight heart attack last week at his home in Glens Falls, N.Y., his wife said Monday. Podres, 53, who was the pitching coach for the Minnesota Twins last season, was in stable condition at Glens Falls Hospital, Joan Podres said from their Glens Falls home. This year, Podres is a roving instructor for Los Angeles Dodgers farm teams, but Mrs. Podres said she doubted her husband would be doing much traveling immediately after his release from the hospital. Podres, a left-hander, was the first most valuable player in World Series history in 1955 and became a hero to every baseball fan in Brooklyn when the Dodgers ended decades of frustration by beating the Yankees in the seventh game in the Series. It was the first time a team had won the World Series after losing the first two games, and it was Brooklyn's only World Series victory before the franchise moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season.